Thousands of Gold and Precious Metal Items Found in Saka Burial Mound
Thousands of Gold and Precious Metal Items Found in Saka Burial Mound In an ancient funeral mound in Kazakhstan, archeologists have discovered a trove of millennia-old golden jewelry. The Saka was once the home of the remote mountains of Tarbagata, where Kazakhstan meets north China. The skilled horsemen were nomadic people who moved throughout Eurasia …
Mysterious Shipwreck Artifacts Found Off England’s Coast To Be X-Rayed
Mysterious Shipwreck Artifacts Found Off England’s Coast To Be X-Rayed Tons of items retrieved from the wreck of a sailing boat from the Dutch East India company will be scanned by new X-ray equipment to reveal hidden details. In January 1740, after landing on Goodwin Sands, the Rooswijk [ a so-called ‘ retrochip ‘ built on …
Mining Camp Found in Southeast Australia
Mining Camp Found in Southeast Australia Researchers from Macquarie University were examining remains of industrial equipment that was used to haul shale out of the valley when New South Wales National Parks rangers alerted them to the presence of other structures and artifacts, including wall foundations, hearths, paving, corrugated iron roofing, ceramics, and glᴀss that …
Mask of the red queen A.D 670 Mexico
Mask of the red queen A.D 670 Mexico One of the richest known burials of the Mayan women monarch is the funeral ᴀssemblage of Palenque’s Lady Tz’akbu Ajaw, nicknamed the Red Queen as it was discovered to be covered in cinnabar. Her sarcophagus was in Temple XIII, next to the Temple of the Inscriptions, where her …
New DNA analysis reveals ancient Scythian warrior was a 13-year-old girl
New DNA analysis reveals ancient Scythian warrior was a 13-year-old girl Throughout Greek mythology there existed a tribe called Amazone, comprising only of women, and a hunting tribe that tamed horses and fought. While it is said that Amazon exaggerated the tribal tribes that lived on the Black Sea coast, the Scythians of the nomadic horse races that appeared in the …
A 9,000-year-old head with amputated hands laid over could be the oldest ritual beheading in the Americas
A 9,000-year-old head with amputated hands laid over could be the oldest ritual beheading in the Americas The Amazon rain forest has long inspired gruesome stories of ritualistic violence from 19th-century tales of tribes searching for “trophy heads” to Hollywood films such as Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. But a much longer history than commonly believed can …
Vikings blacksmith tools and weapons found in the grave, ca.800 A.D Norway
Vikings blacksmith tools and weapons found in the grave, ca.800 A.D Norway Last autumn, farmers Leif Arne Nordheim borrowed a backhoe from his neighbor to remove some pesky flagstones from his garden in Sogndalsdalen on the southwestern coast of Norway. Lifting the last flagstone revealed tools — a hammer and tongs — which Nordheim first ᴀssumed were of …
The origin of Greek Civilization on a Pyramid Island
The origin of Greek Civilization on a Pyramid Island A new discovery has possibly revealed the origin of Ancient Greek culture. In a remote and uninhabited pyramid-shaped islet, archaeologists have found evidence of a rich cultural and monumental landscape dating from earlier than the Minoan period. The evidence so far is that it was a …
well preserved 700-year-old mummy found by chance by Chinese road workers
Well preserved 700-year-old mummy found by chance by Chinese road workers If most people think of mummies, they represent Egyptian culture and complex techniques for mummification aimed at bridging life and death and maintaining the survival of the body. Whereas most mummies found today are a result of this process, there have been rare occasions where …
Coins buried during the English Civil War found on the farm
Coins buried during the English Civil War found on the farm A plowed farmer’s field in England is notable not because of crops, but because of coins. A trove of over 1,000 coins dating to the English Civil War has been discovered in a field near the British village Ewerby, according to a report from …